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Everyone knows that employing a new staff member is one of the biggest financial investments that businesses ever make. In addition to their salary, there are the add-on costs of management, [...]

So you’ve combed through the résumés, shortlisted potential candidates and set up the interviews. Now for the real challenge: conducting the interviews and judging the candidates' suitability in [...]

Working with The Proven Group has provided us with the discipline to identify our ‘must-have’ requirements and the confidence that these will be met. The process is always efficient, fuss-free [...]

The Proven Group were professional, flexible and responsive. I simply gave them our requirements and let them do what they do best. This freed me up to do my job and focus on meeting the [...]

Thanks to The Proven Group, hiring new staff has been quite painless and stress-free. Carmel is very contactable and always calls back the same day if she’s not available - not many people work [...]

In a recent post we explored the hidden costs of a bad hire and stressed the importance of taking the time and trouble to ensure that you recruit the right person in the first place.

One size seldom fits all when it comes to recruitment. Some businesses wish to outsource the entire process, while others, like one of our recent clients require our expertise in writing the job [...]

The goal of any recruitment campaign is to attract a pool of suitably qualified candidates from which to select the best person for the job. Here are our tips for planning and executing a [...]

We all know what it’s like waiting to hear the outcome of an interview or job application and never receiving that call – eventually concluding that we have not been successful and not knowing [...]

Some job ads attract literally hundreds of applications. How can you avoid being overwhelmed next time you’re recruiting? The key is to prepare an ad that attracts only the most suitable [...]

No two businesses are the same, and neither is the way in which they recruit. Many large organisations, for example, have their own HR departments, while medium-sized businesses may outsource the [...]

Your job ad may have been written to attract only the most suitable candidates, but the task of reviewing and shortlisting résumés can still be a daunting one.